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Matloob Piracha

University of Kent, UK, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Kent

Research interest

Migration and strategic trade policy

Website

http://bit.ly/Piracha_Kent

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Consultant, UK Department for International Development, 2009–2010

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Exeter, 2003

Selected publications

  • “Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance.” Papers in Regional Science (Forthcoming).

  • “Immigrant over- and under-education: The role of home country labour market experience.” IZA Journal of Migration 1:3 (2012) (with M. Tani and F. Vadean).

  • “Return migration and occupational choice: Evidence from Albania.” World Development 38:8 (2010):1141–1155.

  • “Remittances, institutions and economic growth.” World Development 37:1 (2009): 81–92 (with N. Catrinescu, M. Leon-Ledesma, A. Miguel, and B. Quillin).

  • “Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: The source country perspective.” Journal of Population Economics 18:4 (2005):779–807 (with A. de Coulon).

article(s)

  • Occupational choice of return migrants

    Migrant-sending countries can significantly benefit from the type of occupation chosen by return migrants

    Matloob Piracha, October 2015
    The occupational choice of return migrants is important to their home country. Return migrants are likely to have acquired human capital while abroad, either through formal training or by working in a more efficient labor market. The employment of these newly acquired skills in the home country can have important economic implications. Examining the choice of return migrants to engage in wage employment, self-employment, entrepreneurial activity, or to remain out of the labor market makes it possible to ascertain whether the initial migration decision benefited the home country as well as the migrants and their families.
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